Swivel button



(No Model.) 4 v T. R. HYDE, Jr.

SWIVEL BUTTON.

f'/No. 582,066.- Patented May 4, 1897.

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UNITED STATES llATnN'l Orifice.

SWIVEL-BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 682,066, dated Muy 4, 1897. Application tllcd December 3,1896. Borlal No. 614,282. No modelo To all ech-om it muy concern.-

lic it known that I, 'lunoriumrs It. llror., Jr., a. citizen ofthe United States, residing at \\"atcrbury, in the conntyot' New lleven and Stato of Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Swivel-lintt-ons, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

'lhis invention relates to modifications of xo the kind of button forming tite subject ol' the patent ol A. .L Shipley, No. 548,143, granted October 15, 1895, ln that patent the spacer and the button-head are rigidly connected. For some purposes i t. is desirable that the lintton-head have such a connection with the spacer as that. said buttcndlead may vibrate about the sliaeer in order to adapt itself to changes ot position or directions of strains in use.

The object of the invention is to provide such a connection of the button-head with its spacer that tite said head may have a swivelini,r motion or action.

A further object of the invention is to adz5 mit of the use of ataek-l`asteningiu the forni of buttons, now very largely used, in which the face o'r head is composed wholly or ia part of hard stoel. It has been found that. where the hard-steel f ace is exposed in the settingtool to the pressure and impact incident to not ting the button it is liable to fracture or de- 4 t'acement. I desire to provide against. this objection.

'.lho invention consists of a lack-fastened button having a bead anda-spacer connected by a tubular rivet or other suitable connecting medium which is of such greater length than the greatest depth of the buttoudiea-d as to admit ot' the button-head having, a l-nvivel- 4o ing motion.

The invention also consists of a swivel-but tou whose head, especially when made ot' hard steel, is provided with a central opening in its face, combined with a spacer con neet-ed there with bya suitablehollow rivet. or like fastening, the header which is exposed in and free ot tho opening in the face ot' the button, seas to receive the setti lig-tool wholly wit hout contact of auch setting-tool with the face of the 5c button, thereby to relieve thc face of thebutton ot' the pressure and impact of the settinglool.

In the aecompmrving drawings, illustrating my invention, in the several figures of which like parts are similarly designated andin all of which the parts are purposely exaggerated in order the more clearly to show the invention, Figure l is a cross-section showing the parts of the button in position to be nssciw bled. Fig. :2 shows inclusa-section said parts 6o assembled. Fig. 3 is a viewsinlilar to Fig. ".2,

illustrating one feature of the swiveling eapacity of the button. Fig. 4 is a similar view representing: another feature ot' the swiveling capacity. Fig. 5 is a cross-section showing 65 m y invention applied to n closed-face button. Fig. li is across-section showing my invention applied to a. button whose head is composed oi a face-plate and a ba.ck-plate.

Rcfvrriwrf, now to Figs. 1 to 4, n is the but- 7o ton-head, which may be made of any suitable material, such as steel or brass and the like. This buttonhead is provided with a central depression which forms n shank or hub I1.

f' is a spacer constructed as au annular 75 pocket-like device, substtmtiall) ns in the hipley patent, hcreinbetore referred to.

d' is the tubular rivet or connecting mediunl, and by the t-erln tubular rivet" I moan to include anysuitabledeviee havinga So solid head to receive the setting-tool und to provide for the overturning, curling, or upsetting ol' the fastening-tack, (not shown,) and also having the essentially cylindrical tubular extension f, the lower end of which S5 is spread out within the pocket-like spacer c, as shown in Fig. zi, in order to unite the button-head, rivet, and spacer and to constitute a complete button ready to be attacned to a garment by the insertion ol' a tack an-l its up- 9o setting within thc tubular rivet.

As will be observed, the portion f of the rivets ol greater length than tite hub ol the hillton and the height. ol the spacer when the parts are assembled, and hence the but-ton head o has a capacity ol lateral movement, as partly indicated b v full and dotted lines in Fig. Il, and is eapnbleol rotating about said rivet, and also is capable ol' movement in the direction o( the length ot said shank, too

as also partly indicated hy full and dotted lines in lsig. -t, and these movements I include within the term swiveiing." Ae already indicated, such capacity et movoi'ueut on t ie part of the button-head is advantageous in permitting the buttondlead to adapt itself to the motions of the wearer of thegarment to which the hutten is applied in order to accommodate itself to the strains, &c.

Another and important; feature of this improvement. is that the rivethead, being ex posed free of the button-head, is adapted to take upon itself the pressure and impact of the setting-tool and thereby relieve the button-head of suoli pressure and impact and save it from fracture and disigurement.

The in vention is applicable in part to but ton-heads having a covered face, as in Fig. ii, and where the covering g is of soft matcrial, not liable. to injury by the operation oi' the setting-tool, it may be continuous across the face of the button. However, in this form of button the swiveling feature is limited to rotary motion and a slight lateral tip.

Where the face ot the button is of hard material, such as steel, as at h., Fig. (i, then the center of sach covering will be eut away, as at i, in order to expose the head of the rivetfor use in connection with the sett-ingtool, so as to avoid contact of the settiug-tool with the hard-metal face and te preserve the covering from injury and defacemen t.

The tubular rivet. or equivalent fastening may he made of soft steel or such other materal as will snfice to upset the point of the tack and which will not fracture in the eperation' of setting the button.

In the case of the covered buttons shown in Figs. 5 and 6, while I have used the same reference-letters as in Figs. 1 to .4,'1 do not wish to be understood as thereby limiting auch covered buttons to the details of construction and material described in cotilleotion with Figs-1 to 4, since, as is obvious, the practice of button-makers is to use in covered buttons a back oftin` sheetiron, and other material and a face el snperiorstoelc or ol' differentstock. These and other modi- Iicutions of the several feature-sof my invcn tion are intended te he iuelmlccl within the claims herein made.

What I claim isa-M 1. A button of the tack-fasteneil variety, having a central, runforated hull, a tubular rivet having a closed head arranged within the hub and a shank of greater length than the greatest depth of the button-head, and a pocket-like spacci' within which the ahank is spread, the spacer being arranged at a dstance from the button-head sullicientto permit lateral and longitudinal movement of the buttendlead, wherehysaid button-head in capable of u. swlveling action when fastened to a garment, substantially as described.

2. A button of the tack-fastened variety, having a central, perfomted huh and a faccplate constructed with a central opening, a

tubular rivet arranged in said hub and having its closed end exposed at the opening in the face-plate of the button and free of it., and a pocket-like spacer within which the other end of said rivet is spread, the said spacer being arranged at a distance from and free of contact with the hub el the hutten,

the buttondiead beingr thus swiveied to said rivet, substantially as described.

3. A button, of the tack-fastened variety, comprising a hard-steel buttelrhead, n tubular rivet. of soft steel, having a head exposed at the face of the but-ton and accessible to a se tiug-tool independently of tnelmtton-head, and a shank of greater length than the grentest depth of the bntton'hcad, and an annular pocket-like spacer within which the end of the shank is spread and eoniined, the said spacer being arranged distant. from and iudependentiy of the tuition-head, whereby the latter obtains a swivel action, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof l have hereunto set my hand this 30th day of November, A. l). 1896.

'llilCOllllLiT li.. llYll-I, Jn. Witnesses HENRY Figur.,- M. J. Zinnen 

